Sonoff Basic WiFi Wireless Switch

Terrible quality and customer support – I purchased 5 Sonoff Mini's. 1 Arrived dead on arrival and wouldn't pair. Of the 4 remaining, only 3 are still working 2 months later. The 4th one has lost wireless and refuses to pair. Sonoff support start are next to useless and seem to have no interest in trying to support their product and are more interested in trying to blame your WiFi. For… Read more

reference, all 4 devices were installed within 50cm of each other. Build quality is questionable and the cases easily pull apart. Really hard to recommend as they are designed to be installed inside the power points which mean you either need to know what you're doing or get a sparky which far outweighs the low price point. Get an external smart switch instead, this way if it fails which seems likely given my 40% failure rate you can always pull out the smart socket and continue to use the powerpoint.

Change horses in the middle of the stream – Sonoff sells hardware which requires their app to use it. The app has always been free. Now after purchasing several switches they decide to change the app to a for-pay for features that have always been free (ifttt integration) I don't mind someone monetizing their app. But don't sell your hardware on the implicit promise that the app is freely available and then change your model and start charging for it.

Sonoff products are well made and can be useful – I have been experimenting with Sonoff switches and other devices for about a year. The bad news is: One of the Sonoff plugs (plugs into a GPO) failed suddenly without warning after about 3 months. The app is a little pedestrian but the latest version is much improved. Are they C tick (ie Aus approved??). I am not able to find out definitively… Read more

yet. The good news: Very easy to set up on EweLink (just make sure that your WiFi is set to 2.5G (not 5G). Has a well made case and after pulling the broken plug to bit's, is very well made internally. The Four output unit is really useful because it can be used without needing to get an electrician to wire it. It can be powered by a normal power supply of between 5V and 24V. I used it to control my garage door and will be using it for other alarms or indicators. I have used IFTTT to open and close the doors, Garage lights, and a pool fountain using Google assistant. So, for example, I can program the door and lights to open and close based on my location. ie when I'm approaching the house my phones location is used automatically to open the garage doors when I get home, and close when I leave the house. I simply ask Google Home to "open/close garage doors" or "turn on/off the fountain or lights" and it works seamlessly. They work seamlessly in the Google Home environment. They can also be controlled by a cheap Sonoff remote control and WiFi bridge.

I see that they are releasing a range of equipment which will be very useful. ie smoke, temp and humidity sensors, cameras etc. I will be buying some of their other products soon to see how well they work and will review the results.

Really Good WiFi Switches - Works with Google Home, etc – I have a few of these for isolating power in hard to access places. They are for inline applications where you want to control up to 2200W loads. They work with an app called EweLink and can by synced to Google Home and controlled by voice if you want to. Sonoff make a nifty ~$7 plastic box that house these small switches and have 2x cable glands… Read more

included. These devices need to be wired to 240V so need approval. There is a company in Australia (oikotec) selling these with certification.

If you are into it - you can program these things to do all sorts tricks - but they can be controlled on a time, delay, repetition basis etc using the eWeLink app. There are lots of different types including power monitoring and temperature/humidity triggering. They also make plain vanilla versions that plug straight into your wall socket and can control whatever you like by just plugging it in, registering it in eWeLink and playing.

These Sonoff switches have lots of applications - I rank them as really useful.

Sonoff WiFi Switch – Bought Sonoff WiFi switch from eBay This particular one is capable of triggering one relay (unimportant in this instance) I am using it to open a door of our home Which it does very well However to make it of any use for it's purpose, it needs to be accessed by my family, herein lies the problem, with a lack of usability. To make it work on each… Read more

household member's phone, the switch requires an App from eWelink Which unfortunately has only Chinese instructions. The rest of the world have to work it out for ourselves Now there are certain unusual roadblocks to using the App, features like, it requires you to TYPE in your password every time, if you use the saved password on your phone you will get an error message of invalid password. Just an inconvenience, that could easily be programmed out. After spending a very large amount of time trying to share the switch with the other phones in the household. I have emailed eWelink with the problem. For which I got no help. Royally fobbed off, is how I describe it to others. So I am recommending that consumers avoid Sonoff products, (and any others that require eWelink) not because they are bad, but because if you can't get them to work as advertised, they are a waste of your money.